Annoying!!!!!

renormalised (Carl) · #1 27-08-2010, 12:37 PM

Something that really gets on my goat....when the phone rings, you pick it up to answer it and there's no one on the other end. You say "hello" a number of times and all you get is silence. It's usually someone like telemarketers and such, but you can never tell most of the time.

These days I just hang up on them...couldn't be bothered with people or organisations that act like that.

multiweb (Marc) · #2 27-08-2010, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by renormalised

Something that really gets on my goat....when the phone rings, you pick it up to answer it and there's no one on the other end. You say "hello" a number of times and all you get is silence. It's usually someone like telemarketers and such, but you can never tell most of the time.

These days I just hang up on them...couldn't be bothered with people or organisations that act like that.

I get these all the time as well. Mostly machines waiting for a hello to trigger dispatch to a telemarketer usually. I wish we were able to redial on any incoming phone call. I mean they know who we are, the least TELCO can do is give us a mean to know who they are. ... and I don't buy the privacy BS. I'm the one who got contacted in the first place.

renormalised (Carl) · #3 27-08-2010, 12:47 PM

Exactly....as those that these nuisances contact all the time, we should be allowed to know who they are as well. Most have number blocking on their phones to prevent others from finding out who they are, but I reckon they shouldn't be allowed to have it.

DavidU (Dave) · #4 27-08-2010, 12:49 PM

I tell them I'm busy at the moment but if I could have there mobile number I will call them back during their dinner.

multiweb (Marc) · #5 27-08-2010, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by renormalised

Exactly....as those that these nuisances contact all the time, we should be allowed to know who they are as well. Most have number blocking on their phones to prevent others from finding out who they are, but I reckon they shouldn't be allowed to have it.

The traffic/spam they generate on the many lines they call is very good business for the TELCOs. Money talks in the end.

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Originally Posted by DavidU

I tell them I'm busy at the moment but if I could have there mobile number I will call them back during their dinner.

I've given up reasoning. I started just hanging but they call back. So I just now pick up, keep quiet and they hang up. Eventually the machines mark your line as a 'drop' and they don't bother you anymore coz you're off the list. It works.

renormalised (Carl) · #6 27-08-2010, 12:55 PM

Yeah, that's true, Marc. It's all about money these days.

Good one Dave

Ric · #7 27-08-2010, 01:13 PM

I love my answering machine.

I just screen out the unwanted calls, they can ring to their hearts content but I'm not going to pick up.

troypiggo (Troy) · #8 27-08-2010, 01:34 PM

I got sick of these calls, so went on the Do Not Call Register. Now I get even more calls from charities and political parties!

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #9 27-08-2010, 01:36 PM

Happening a lot to me as well, they use a computer dialling system that automatically dials out when an operator is free. once it rings the operator is connected albeit a bit slowly. Save the marketing company time for the oprator to look at the number and dial it out manually. Also allows the company to keep the operators on their toes and not having breaks too.
Someone asked me to set-up a PABX to do the same thing. I didn't want to do it. Wonders of running a business where I can be ethical

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #10 27-08-2010, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by troypiggo

I got sick of these calls, so went on the Do Not Call Register. Now I get even more calls from charities and political parties!

Business cannot register.

pgc hunter · #11 27-08-2010, 02:34 PM

I just don't even bother answering the phone during telemarketer prime-time hours coz I'm just sick of it. All my important contacts are on my mobile so the home phone ringing usually means some parasitic infection on the other end. I don't want that.

What is arguably even more annoying is when the english illiterate on the other end starts by saying "sir I'm not calling to sell anything...". That's my queue to (a) hang up, (b) dust off the F word and other various forms of vulgar language, or (c) make some smartass comments like "can I grab your number so I can call to sell you a phone you already have just as you're sitting down to dinner with your family after a hard day of peeing people off".

Alchemy (Clive) · #12 27-08-2010, 03:28 PM

Ditch the landline, go fully mobile..... No-one bothers you with marketing, switch the phone off wan you want privacy, divert calls if you are busy.
Too easy

troypiggo (Troy) · #13 27-08-2010, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Alchemy

Ditch the landline, go fully mobile..... No-one bothers you with marketing, switch the phone off wan you want privacy, divert calls if you are busy.
Too easy

I like the way you think. Am considering it. Rarely use the home phone these days anyway.

Zaps · #14 27-08-2010, 04:51 PM

When I take a call, the person on the other end has approximately one second to speak before I hang up. They should not be speaking to others. They should not be taking a swig of coffee. They should be waiting to speak, because they have called me.

Almost as bad are the people who pick up a 'phone and say "Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Are you there? Hello? Hello? Is anyone on the line? Hello? Hello?..."

HANG UP, ALREADY!

lacad01 (Adam) · #15 27-08-2010, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidU

I tell them I'm busy at the moment but if I could have there mobile number I will call them back during their dinner.

I like that approach

Also get annoyed by the door to door sales-people from the telcos, pay-tv, energy compainies, etc that knock on the door right in the middle of dinner

multiweb (Marc) · #16 27-08-2010, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by troypiggo

I like the way you think. Am considering it. Rarely use the home phone these days anyway.

Still need one for broadband service though.

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #17 27-08-2010, 05:24 PM

It has become an epidemic now, I call customers that are referred by Audiologist and they assume I am a telemarketer. I have had to introduce myself very differently now in an attempt not to be hung up on.

Marc: Naked DSL does not require a home line number anymore.

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #18 27-08-2010, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Alchemy

Ditch the landline, go fully mobile..... No-one bothers you with marketing, switch the phone off wan you want privacy, divert calls if you are busy.
Too easy

My business call costs have skyrocketed as a result. I have to pass on the costs though. Fortunately in a lot of cases they are not answered due to drop-outs etc and I leave a message.

Although now-a-days I need a mobile and have 2 of them I very rarely use them because of their expense. I use them mostly for receiving calls and have the answering machine disabled.

multiweb (Marc) · #19 27-08-2010, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by mswhin63

Marc: Naked DSL does not require a home line number anymore.

So when you buy an ADSL package it is possible not to pay line rental?

shelltree (Shelley) · #20 27-08-2010, 06:49 PM

My Dad always picks up the phone of an evening now and doesn't say anything, then when he hears the foreign voice he hangs up straight away. It has, however, backfired on a few occassions when his friends have called